SoftInWay, Inc., the developer of AxSTREAM - a powerful software suite that encompasses the complete engineering process of axial turbomachinery flow path conceptual design and optimization, continues its education line in the way of inclusion of this flagship product in various education courses.

'We have developed educational programs for all who want to learn, improve or expand their knowledge in turbomachinery design. Our programs benefit undergraduates, graduates, teachers, professional designers and retrofitters, all of who, using our rapid and reliable design tools' - says Leonid Moroz, President and CEO of SoftInWay. -'Recently, the Mechanical Engineering Department of Louisiana State University (LSU) has chosen to include AxSTREAM in their Turbomachinery Program. We are pleased with their decision to incorporate our software into their curriculum because LSU places high emphasis on turbomachinery academic, research and educational activities, making a real contribution to the industry science and practice.'

Machine Design has posted an
article describing Sverdrup's use of CFD to predict aircraft store separation -- something once designed solely through expensive and dangerous flight testing.

New weapons systems often took years to certify because tests were time consuming, expensive and occasionally led to the loss of aircraft when events didn't go as expected. Dynamically unstable objects such as fuel tanks and some modern, agile munitions that happen to experience a control failure are especially challenging.

The result: CFD did a good job of modeling separation at a speed of Mach 1.2 at an altitude of 38,000 ft.

NUMECA has the pleasure of inviting you to join the NUMECA User Meeting 2005 to be held at Le Meridien Hotel in Brussels, Belgium on 21-22 November 2005.

This event will bring together engineers, designers, scientists, and researchers in CFD analysis of industrial flows and design optimization of turbomachinery blading and for two full days of user presentations, product seminars, technical discussions and keynote presentations.

Fluent Inc., the worldwide leader in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software and services, previewed its new CFD software "FLUENT for CATIA" to attendees at the annual CFD Summit in Detroit, Michigan.

The product is scheduled for release in late 2005, with final prototypes to be demonstrated at the European CATIA Forum on October 4 - 6th in Frankfurt, Germany. Additional demonstrations of FLUENT for CATIA will be made at the European Automotive CFD Conference (EACC) on June 29 - 30th in Frankfurt, Germany, where Fluent and Dassault Systèmes will jointly present the benefits of integrated analysis in the automotive PLM environment.

Professor Wagdi Habashi, President and Chief Scientific Officer of Newmerical Technologies International, is pleased to announce that NTI has reached an agreement with Intelligent Aerodynamics Inc. (IAI) of Stanford, California, for the exclusive commercialization, co-development and customer support of a revolutionary software system for the aerodynamic design of new aircraft and aerospace systems, J-FLO.

J-FLO is written by famed Stanford Professor Antony Jameson, a leading light of CFD algorithmic development and a pioneer of Optimal Control Aerodynamics. NTI is thus truly proud to be the first in bringing this new technology to the market, and to associate itself with Professor Jameson and IAI for its further development.